This was submitted to me today:

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RhinoBook. 123WOW!!! was created for artists to have opportunities to share
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This contest runs throughout the year. That means you can submit your artwork
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Thank you for the ideas!  You are all so creative.
Christine

--- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, Mikel <mikellee31@...> wrote:
>
> I get all of the old file folders from all of the other teachers at the end of
the year. I have the kids put their paintings on those to transport them to the
drying rack. The legal sized ones open up pretty big. -Mikel
>
> On May 6, 2010, at 7:05 AM, "christinereg" <christinereg@...> wrote:
>

I thought that some members on here would be interested to know that it is
possible to convince board members and superintendents not to cut the arts from
the curriculum. The art educators association of Indiana went to bat for the art
teachers in a large district and caused them to reverse their decision. This
might give some of you who are having their positions cut some hope that this
could be reversed. See the note below:

On February 23rd the IPS teachers were sent an e-mail that outlined the budget
cuts for the 2010-2011 year. Included in these cuts were the art programs at the
kindergarten and 1st grades. Indianapolis public School system was faced with
$26 million in budget cuts. Dr. White outlined his plan in a PowerPoint which
included 15.7 art teachers would be cut. The AEAI teachers of IPS went into
action. We attended the following budget meetings held on March 3, and March 24,
armed with questions and support for our position. I spoke at the school board
meeting; several art teachers e-mailed board members, and spoke at the public
meetings.

The AEAI IPS art teachers have asked me to send a special thanks to the
President of AEAI Brad Venable who wrote letters to each member of the school
board in support of the art program, and AEAI Advocacy Chair, Clyde Gaw, who
came and spoke at the public meeting held at Tech high School, advocating art
programs at the primary levels.

We are thrilled to announce that through a well organized and consorted effort
of AEAI to keep art programs at the kindergarten and 1st grades, Dr. White has
decided that the art and music cuts in kindergarten and first grades are off the
table. Art will be taught at the kindergarten and 1st grades.

In these tough economy times we need to remain diligent in our efforts towards
art advocacy. Stay involved.

Sidney Allen

Elementary Art Teacher

Charity Dye Elementary School #27

District 5 AEAI Co- Rep.

Art Rocks!

I just invited a blind girl to be in my pre-advanced art next year.  I have
worked with her before and loved her art.  Anything that I have asked her to
do...she has jumped right in.  Right now I'm having her to draw on Sketch board.
She is doing three pieces...cat in house; cat in tree and cat in yard.  With her
magnify glass she can see the edges.  She is a master on texture and loves to
use a ruler.  When she runs into a problem she ask for my input and we discuss
it.  We tried some clay but it was boring for her.  When she finishes some of
her new pieces I will pass them on.  Years ago when I was exhibiting, I did
several pieces of Word Art using braille. It was interesting and will introduce
her to the idea to see if she is interested.
CA
Middle School Art

--- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, "aliteachesart" <abenton@...> wrote:
>
> I had a blind student that could see some aspects of light and dark, so he
used my light box under drawings and black and white paper.  He did all the
lessons with collage materials and would Brail his art responses.  I went to a
drawing exhibition at the Cummer Museum in FL that showed wonderful contour
drawings by a blind women drawing group.  They were fabulous.  ALi k-4 ny
>
>
>
>
> --- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, "thoverso" <instinct@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all-
> >
> > Just wondering if any of you have experience with teaching art to blind
students? I have a co-hort who will be teaching art to a gal in high school and
she is looking for suggestions. She already has a couple of ideas to work with
puff paints and yarn to draw with.
> >
> > Thanks-Teresa H
> >
>

Greetings Art Educators,

I had a passion for connecting art to science, math, social studies,
language arts - etc....but here is an exhibit that may be over the top
for my former middle school students.... Some of the images are very
cool indeed - but some may make you go "Eeeeewwww".

Visit the New York Times article, "Of Compost, Molecules and Insects,
Art Is Born" - complete with slide show of 13 works in the exhibit
"Dead or Alive" at New York Museum of Arts and Design.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/science/04angier.html?ref=design
Link should take to the article - if not - email subscription is free.

Those of you in the New York area will have to see the exhibit and
tell us all about it.

More from New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.html

Regards,

Judy Decker

P.S. Art Education Yahoo Group and Getty list members remember to
remove email addresses when you reply to posts. Your efforts will cut
down on the amount of Spam everyone receives.

I ask for all the white boards that maintenance takes down from
classrooms when they change them out. I then have my husband cut them
into 24x20, and 20x18 pieces to be used as drawing boards for my
students. Left over pieces are used as cutting  boards when we use
exacto knives.  I also place the bigger pieces on my drying rack so
students can lay wet paper on them.  I also got a couple sheets of foam
insulation, cut into 8x8 and 10x12 pieces for clay building. Great way
of recycling, Wanda

You might want to visit some of these for ideas for next year:

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/crafts-lessons.html

Artists Talk 1.
AIR-HMC, International Artists in Residency, Budapest 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Program:
10:00- Ashley Middleton, Queens, NY -- photo
10:45- Rylan Steele from Columbus, GA -- photo
11:30- Grace Adam from London, UK -- visual artist
12:15- Ildiko Kalapacs from Spokane, WA -- visual artist and folk dancer, guest
speaker

HMC/Medosz, Hunting Conference Room
Budapest, VI. Jokai ter 9.

An artist in residence at the HMC has the opportunity  to live and work here at
the studio in Hungary . Many artists find this a valuable time to experiment and
investigate new directions in their work.  Many artists come here to complete a
specific project or work for a major exhibition or just to be able to work in an
environment with other creative artists.

The aim of this program is to investigate and showing of contemporary art,
develop theoretical and practical self-help through critical development.

HMC is 501©3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international art
and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions,
cultural exchanges and related educational programs. Based in Dallas and
Budapest, the organization operates throughout the world.  Incorporated in 1990.

bszechy@...
www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com

I like the idea. I really want to incorporate some local native american art
into my curriculum next year, but alot of the links on this page do not work?

Anyone else have any links that they use. I am in the Pacific Northwest if
anyone has any for this particular area.

Thanks,

Shelly in Seattle

--- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, "reacheverychild" <reacheverychild@...>
wrote:
>
> You might want to visit some of these for ideas for next year:
>
> http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/crafts-lessons.html
>

With the reduction in funding for technology, this might be a good time for
educators to a look at what is out there for free or for very little cost.  For
example, I found a little company that provides open source computers and
servers used by many larger institutions; has U.S.-based customer service. The
savings in software costs alone was significant, and there weren't any licensing
costs.  The company is eRacks Open Source Systems, and I am sure there are
others.
The sites offer that type of information as well as providing updates, grants,
and ideas on how to use software in the schools.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/classroom-technology.html

I run a spring Native American arts and science camp each year and we've done
lots of different tribes as you might imagine.  I find most of the N.A. art
projects in books to be fairly straight forward, (and redundant) so I just
started looking at all their art myself.  I found my time was far better spent
viewing their art and understanding how I could re-imagine it with my kids and
the materials I had, then looking through hours of art books- over the same 12
projects- hoping to find new ones.
      One project we did to celebrate the Northern Pacific Haidas were button
blankets.  We did ours as button "squares".  The Haida were using buttons not
unlike South American's use sparkly sequence.  We had three different age
groups:
With the youngest kids, we cut out traditional Haida animals for them out of
felt.  They glued the flt on their muslin square and then glued buttons on top
of that.
  With the 3-5th graders, we gave them the cut out animals and let them sew the
felt and the buttons to the muslin. A couple we gave the felt outline to and
they cut the shape out themselves.
With our 6th- 8th graders we gave them stiff plastic cut outs and they traced
the images onto the felt, or right onto the their muslin, cut out the images,
and then sewed them to the muslin.  Two students chose to trace a pencil drawing
on their muslin and then use the buttons just as the Haida would have, to
outline the image and create it in buttons.
   You need LOTS of buttons.  Lots and lots of buttons.
   I love teaching Native American arts.  I find there is some issue teaching it
in our Va. public schools because it has religious significance and I can get in
"trouble" for doing religious art.  I'm not bucking the system, but it is why I
have to teach it almost entirely as a private spring camp.
Have fun,
Brandy

--- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, "shellysart" <shellysart@...> wrote:
>
> I like the idea. I really want to incorporate some local native american art
into my curriculum next year, but alot of the links on this page do not work?
>
> Anyone else have any links that they use. I am in the Pacific Northwest if
anyone has any for this particular area.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shelly in Seattle
>
> --- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, "reacheverychild" <reacheverychild@>
wrote:
> >
> > You might want to visit some of these for ideas for next year:
> >
> > http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/crafts-lessons.html
> >
>

Greetings Art Educators,

A BIG Thank you to all who voted for Jeryl's student Jordan (from La
France Elementary). Jordan (and the school) won last week!

Lydia posted the news on Getty list (thanks Lydia).

Cheers!

Judy

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Lydia wrote:

> I saw that Jeryl's student won Artsonia artist of the week - congrats
> Jeryl and Jordan!

I did some experiments too-

I took water bottles (the plastic kind made with corn is easier to cut) and cut
them like sea weed or anemones and painted them with acrylic paint mixed with
mod podge.  When they dried the paint was translucent, like glass paint.  It was
quite stinky, so I might mix the paint with gel medium instead. I'm going to
make a group instillation with first graders.  We're also going to paint apple
sauce and pudding cups, and paint on clear laminated scraps then cut out
spirals.  Ali k-4, who is loving the inspiration of this group :)


--- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl Hancock <hancock.ca@...> wrote:
>
> I did my experiment this week using laminating sheets and a heat gun ( my
> hair dryer  was too cool). I tore up pieces of painted tissue paper left
> over from Eric Carle activity  and placed them in a laminating pouch. I ran
> it through the laminator . I then cut out a circular flower sort of shape .
> I then pinched it together in the centre to start forming up a flower shape.
> Using a pair of BBQ tongs held it and applied the heat.. I got the effect I
> wanted at a very cheap price.
> Warning - heat gun quite hot - not for kids to operate - not too smelly-
> I could imagine enclosing very fine wire or gold thread in a circular spiral
> pattern along with torn spirals of paper etc in the laminating pouch. Will
> send images when back at work next week and have completed some more
> experiments.
> Cheryl H
> Visual Arts Specialist
> Beeliar Primary School
> Perth Australia
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:41 AM, MarciaB <marciadotcom@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > So I saw in an art teacher magazine about a collaborative project that
> > looks like a Chihuly glass sculpture, but uses melted plastic water bottles.
> > The steps say to heat the plastic with a heat gun and then shape the
> > plastic. Later, you paint the plastic and let dry. Then, you assemble all
> > the kids' pieces into one large sculpture. The project looks gorgeous! So I
> > tried to melt the water bottles and I started feeling nauseous from the
> > fumes. I don't think I could do it for a whole class of kids. Does anyone
> > have any other ideas to make a faux-glass sculpture without risking my
> > health?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Cheryl Hancock
> Cooper, Dior and Charisma
> Perth Australia
>

Here are some Northwest Coast sites I have used --

http://www.efieldtrips.org/cfm_bin/vv_altWindow.cfm?q_ID=SITK         This is a
neat efield trip site from Sitka National Historical Park
http://www.native-languages.org/home.htm#list           This has a little bit of
everything and lots of links to explore
http://www.iaia.edu/           Institute of American Indian Arts
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Art_and_Design/AmericanIndianArt.htm         
Smithsonian
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAart.html         Virtual Library
of Native American Resources, search any tribe
http://www.american-indian-museum.com/       American Indian Museum
http://nativeamericans.mrdonn.org/northwest.html

There are many Native artists that have sites of art they are creating that is
just breath-taking!! It's great to see the traditions continue!

Linda

Greetings Art Educators,

I wish I had known about Sue Coccia when I was doing my units on
Northwest Native American art. I love her work.
http://www.earthartinternational.com/

I bought her owl print for my husband (Christmas present). I also
bought the calendar for his classroom (he teaches high school English
- but has lots of art prints hanging in his room).

Sue's Grandmother's Grandmother was Native American.

I think it is important to show students how ideas of Native peoples
can be adapted - rather than copied.

Sue's prints come with meaning of the animals that are used in each image.

Enjoy,

Judy Decker

Yippee! Jordan from La France,SC won the artist of the week. When I got the
email I
called his class to tell his teacher and she told the class while I was
on the phone and they were all cheering for him. Thanks to all who
voted. This is a really big event for this kid and his family. It is
actually big for our district- we are pretty small- only 6 schools in
our whole district and I sent the email district wide and was really
impressed with the other teachers and schools' involvement in the arts.
That is one of the great things about Artsonia- it puts the kids' work
out there and they get recognition. Thanks again for your support!
        Jeryl in SC   who was so blessed today to administer PASS testing and not
teach art :(

> --- In art_education@yahoogroups.com, "shellysart" <shellysart@...> wrote:
>> I like the idea. I really want to incorporate some local native american art
into my curriculum next year, but alot of the links on this page do not work?
>>
>> Anyone else have any links that they use. I am in the Pacific Northwest if
anyone has any for this particular area.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Shelly in Seattle


Shelly -

It's been a little nutty getting ready for my May 20 art show so I
missed your original post - apologies.  I have a couple other
suggestions for you, based on 20 years of teaching experience in New
Mexico.  My last school had the benefit of having the Southwestern
Indian Polytechnic Institute within its boundaries.  That meant
children from a wide variety of tribal groups, in addition to New
Mexico's Pueblo groups and the Apache and Navajo Nations were in our
classrooms.  It was a great learning experience for all of us.

Most Indian nations have folks who deal specifically with
educational outreach and many of them have separate offices that
promote the arts.  It's important that we not generalize across
cultures, though there may be commonalities between and among
different groups.  Think how much we'd miss if we assumed that
Germany and France, for example, were indistinguishable.  If we want
to experience a folk art from a European culture, we seek out
artists with specific experience - representatives of that culture.
   I've had an energetic volunteer in her 70's showing some of my
kids how Swedish weaving works and it's been a great exchange.

Check with local tribal groups to see if they have traditional
crafts they'd like to share.  There are several tribes in my county
that are gracious about sharing their art.  They'll be frank about
the kinds of things that are sacred to them and shouldn't be shared
and you'll undoubtedly want to respect their wishes.  My previous
school quickly changed some of the symbols used in our decor when it
was discovered that a couple of the drawings were taboo to the tribe
   whose ancestral lands were beneath our school.  Likewise, we were
careful to avoid any art projects that touched on religious topics.
The Golden Rule (thanks, ancient Greece!) is a great resource at
times like this.

Seattle area tribal links:
<
http://www.visitseattle.org/cultural/guides/native/resources.asp
  >
WA tribal links:
<
http://500nations.com/Washington_Tribes.asp
  >
Pacific NW tribal info from Wikipedia:
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Pacific_Northwest_Coast
  >

Enjoy your planning!

Joyce
...........
K-5 Art Specialist
http://EvergreenArt.Birdsong.org

I received recognition last night at our annual Trustee reception for 30 years
of teaching art.  I'm still stunned that it's been so long.  I know that I chose
the right profession so long ago, because I still love it.  A huge surprise was
that I also received the Zhilka Family Fine Arts Chair in Arts Education!  What
a wonderful surprise and cap to a 30 year ride!  It makes being so tired at the
end of the year a little easier!  Hats off to all of you who also have the most
important jobs in your schools!  To be a good teacher, I believe we all need to
truly believe that last statement.  You know how much your children look forward
to art. Many will say it is their favorite subject.  We are teaching children to
think critically, work together, problem solve, discover creative voice, take
pride in a job well done, and delight in being unique.  Weave all of that
together with our content and cross disciplinary teaching, and we truly are
giving children a gift to serve them well that can last a lifetime.
I am proud to be an art teacher!
Happy Day,
Linda

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill


David G. Exner
Art Teacher & Art Club Co-Adviser
Community High School,District 94
WestChicago
(630)876-6407

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I attended a workshop at our state conference one year and the ladies did a
similar project that many of you mentioned but we used hot water. Had pans on
hot plates, not quite boiling. We dipped pieces of plastic into the water with
tongs and it bent right up. You could actually manipulate it a little. You could
color the pieces with sharpies or they had special paint like you use on faux
stained glass (plastic stuff)  in little plastic containers they bought at
Walmart. Not all plastic works. I used lids from drink containers because
someone had given me a big sleeve of them. We cut the lids in a spiral and
dipped them- they made twirled shapes which we used as ornaments on a tree we
needed to decorate with water proof ornaments. I did it with 4th grade (
supervising the pans) and they loved it. You have to just test the plastic to
make sure it will work- the rigid stuff won't. At the work shop we made several
pieces and hot glued them together to make
  sculptures.
          Jeryl in SC

Greetings All List Members,

The Altered Book Tip In exchanges over the years have been quite fun -
and very successful. Is there any interest in doing another one? What
is a Tip In? - for those who are new to this type of Altered Book

Participants create individual pages - usually 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 ( so
standard size USA paper can be used -- although we have had some
participate as far away as Australia!). Generally a theme is selected
(although interpretation is wide open) - members create pages - enough
for each participant - which are sent to the group host (which in this
case would be me). The pages are sorted and mailed back to the
participants. If there are 12 members, you get back 12 different
pages. If you want one of your own, make an extra one and keep it.

Once the group is formed, we can decide as a group if we wont to do
one page, front and back side - OR an inside spread. Inside spread is
the facing pages. When we do inside spreads, i always do something on
the back side, too so that it isn't blank - but that choice is up to
you.

When you get your pages, you insert them into a book. Cut out the
existing pages all except about a 1/2 strip. The new pages are glued
inside those "tabs' - or are "tipped in" - hence the name "Tip Ins".

Reply to me OFF LIST at this email address if you are interested (Do
not post my email address to the lists for email bots to harvest).
This email address is jdecker4art and ends with gmail.com

Include in your reply:

First and last name
email address (will be shared with all participants)
snail mail address (will not be distributed)
phone number (will not be distributed)

Once the group is formed, we can "talk" (via email) about various
themes. The mail to me date would be first of August to allow you time
to "play" with them before school starts.

Regards,

Judy Decker

Greetings Art Educators,

I can't take credit for discovering this great resource - Georgia
O'Keeffe Museum now has an extensive online database:
Collections Online
http://contentdm.okeeffemuseum.org/index.php

>> The collections online represent a selection of the wide range of works in
the Museum and Research Center collections. Works are being added online on an
ongoing basis so check back often!

I "discovered" the link on Cr. Craig Roland's Art Education 2.0 - Ning
Network. I haven't been there for a while and now need to see what all
I missed (smile).
http://arted20.ning.com/
The main focus of Art Education 2.0 is technology - but all
aspects/issues are discussed.

Join in the project now to come up with a good Art Education slogan!

Enjoy,

Judy Decker

Getty Members: A gentle reminder to remove all email addresses before
you click "send". Your efforts ARE paying off - for me. The amount of
Spam I receive has been greatly reduced. I appreciate the extra time
it takes you to remove the email addresses of original senders.